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PHIL 110
PHIL 110 test 1
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 1
02/15/2011

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deductive arguements
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can be either valid or invalid (not true or false)
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propositions
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have a truth value or has a possibility of being true
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valid deductive arguements
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can be sound or unsound based off of the truth values
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sound arguement
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is a valid arguement in which all of the premises are true
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quantity
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universal or particular
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quality
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affirmative or negative
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type A
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universal affirmative
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type E
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universal negative
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type I
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Particular affirmative
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type O
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Particular negative
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Distribution
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what the proposition is making a claim about
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switch subject and predicate
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converse
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change the quantity and compliment the predicate (always valid)
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obversion
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switch the subject and predicate and compliment both
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contrapositive
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change the quantity and quality and truth value. (always invalid)
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contradiction
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existential fallacy
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you can never infer a particular from a universal.
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distribution of a type A proposition
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Subject is distributed
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distribution of type E
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subject and predicate distributed
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distribution of type I
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nothing is distribution
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distribution of type O
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predicate is distributed
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for a converse which types are equivalent?
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Type E and I
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for a contrapositive, which types are equivalent?
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Type A and O
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what is the difference between Boolean and Aristatilian existential import claims?
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Boole states that a universal proposition cannot have universal import.
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shading = ?
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removing
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x = ?
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there exists at least one
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